Enterprise and Community in South Asian History 1700-1940

Tirthankar Roy

Company of Kinsmen

Enterprise and Community in South Asian History 1700-1940

Tirthankar Roy

Description

This volume examines the history of enterprise and entrepreneurial communities from the beginning of the eighteenth to mid nineteenth century. Roy examines how enterprise and entrepreneurial communities adapted to globalization and colonial law. He analyses forms of merchant organization in pre-colonial and colonial India; impact of commercialism on artisans collectives; linkages between institutional change and peasant lineage; interplay between new work opportunities, managerial paradigms, and organized labour supply ; relationship between state, economic order, and business organizations.

Company of Kinsmen

Enterprise and Community in South Asian History 1700-1940

Tirthankar Roy

Table of Contents

Preface, Introduction: Indian society and the economic history of India, 1. Context: Economic history and 'culture';2. States: A political theory of the community;3. Merchants: Guild as corporation;4. Artisans: Guild for training;5. Workers: Collective bargaining;6. Peasants, Property and market;7. Postscript; Bibliography, Index

Company of Kinsmen

Enterprise and Community in South Asian History 1700-1940

Tirthankar Roy

Author Information

BTirthankar Roy teaches economic history at London School of Economics and Political Science.